Report: SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI software is the business intelligence choice of midsize companies. It includes affordable solutions that can address BI requirements from operational reporting to flexible ad hoc query reporting and analysis, to dashboards and visualization, to powerful data quality and integration, to planning and budgeting. >>

Video: Explore how SMBs can use IT, including business intelligence and ERP, to survive, and even thrive, in today's economic climate. >>

Report: Making strategy real, through the effective deployment of business performance optimization systems, is no longer a "nice to have" capability. At a basic level, these systems are now a survival requirement. When executed exceptionally, they can also support the process efficiency, improved insight and flexibility that are the backbones of strategic agility. >>

Whitepaper: According to research firm IDC, an increasing number of midsize organizations are making BI functionality more pervasively available to all decision makers, but having BI available means much more than distributing reports to all stakeholders. Learn about the six key indicators that define pervasive BI. >>

I-Tour: Learn the value of the SAP SME portfolio through three value scenarios: Insight, Efficiency and Flexibility. >>

Report: Software can't tell you how to beat the competition, but it can determine which products and services have the greatest profit margin, who are the most productive employees, or how investments are impacting the bottom line. Knowing that information helps you make the right decisions, such as whether to adjust the company vision, which employees to retain and promote, or how best to address the investments and costs impacting the organization's growth. >>

Report: CIOs have the ability to provide the enterprise with insight and visibility into the complex web of processes and vast stores of data that underpin its operations. By giving the enterprise greater visibility into its information and more streamlined automation of processes and policies, IT provides business-critical support for the organization in the decision-making process. >>

Report: For a small and medium business to be successful, operations requires integrated business management methodologies and systems that assist in making better, faster decisions and provide visibility into key performance drivers, such as employee productivity, asset utilization, and project profitability. >>

Report: Learn how SAP solutions for small businesses and midsize companies help you capture the benefits of economies of scale as your company grows. To handle higher business volume without increasing staffing levels, SAP leverages decades of proven experience and industry best practices to help you streamline and automate business processes. >>

While midsized companies lack the vast resources of industry giants, they are typically able to more quickly implement business decisions. Business intelligence provides a win-win solution for IT and business users by allowing the IT department to be more productive in working with its business users to service special requests -- while permitting those business users to become more self-sufficient. >>

The business intelligence functionality in SAP Business All-in-One solutions helps midsized companies increase visibility into trends and variances, gain insight into their causes, rapidly solve problems and capitalize on opportunities, and help ensure accountability for execution. >>

Watch this presentation from IDC to get a better understanding of the important role that technology can play in helping SMBs survive and even thrive in a challenging economy. See how SMBs can use IT, including Business Intelligence and ERP, to stay viable in today's economic climate. >>

This three-part Webcast series explores the common mistakes that business can avoid by using business intelligence software. It also covers how to get data you can trust and analyze and present that data so your organization can take advantage of all the information that is available. >>

Insight is the power to see into most any given situation. It requires a combination of experience and analytics that enable better decision making. Insight helps SMBs uncover opportunities and expose shortcomings and thus establishes the basics for taking corrective action. >>

IDC continues to find evidence that simply providing individuals with access to financial or sales metrics does not equal pervasive availability of BI technology or processes. Download this paper to read IDC's six key indicators of BI competency and pervasiveness. >>

Small and midsize enterprises are just as able as larger companies to derive the benefits of business analytics. But it will probably require them to re-evaluate their approachor design a new oneto creating knowledge that can drive business performance. >>

SAP BusinessObjects Edge Series provides intuitive and insightful business intelligence for small and mid-size companies. Versatile and proven, Edge provides the same insight into your business and performance that large enterprises enjoy. You gain comprehensive features that support everything from flexible ad hoc reporting and dashboards to data integration and performance management -- packaged and priced for the size of your company. Watch the demo to explore its features. >>

People in Your company are making decisions every day. You can make these decisions faster, smarter, and more aligned with your business when you use SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence solutions. >>

Are you working with too much information, or too little insight? Find out six common mistakes that companies make and how the use of business intelligence solutions can help you avoid them. Unlock the value of your company's data and use it to drive new insights that can significantly improve your business -- and build trust and collaboration at all levels, both inside and outside the business. >>

Ready to move beyond spreadsheets? Read this whitepaper to learn why Business Intelligence has never been more important and how BI will help your organization turn data into useful and meaningful information and then distributes the information to those who need it, when they need it, wherever they need it regardless of limited resources or the size of your company. >>

In today's hypercompetitive markets, small businesses and midsize companies face daily, even hourly, challenges to make the right call fast. Read this valuable whitepaper and find out how your business can gain more reliable information from efficient, integrated IT systems. Then use that information to make faster, smarter decisions that will improve operations and strengthen your competitive position. >>

The sheer amount of information available in today's business climate can be a double-edge sword. This TEC whitepaper takes an informative look at how small businesses and midsize companies can develop ways to access the right information at the right time in order to make better, faster decisions -- without getting bogged down or delayed. >>